Jason Thor Hall / PirateSoftware / Maldavius Figtree / DarkSphere Creations / Maldavius / Thorwich / Witness X / @PotatoSec - Incompetent Furry Programmer, Blizzard Nepo Baby, Lies about almost every thing in his life, Industry Shill, Carried by his father, Hate boner against Ross Scott of Accursed Farms, False Flagger

[GhastlyGhost]

Fuck if I know I'm not a dev.
I'd guess contractors work, IP / Trademark filings, checking to make sure you don't have anything illegal in your game. I remember that one indie game got fucked on steam because its name was too similar to something else out there and they had to change the name or possibly pay royalties.
The world is retarded and bullshit.
E:
Spooky's house of jumpscares I think was the game.

In the US, if you're working with other people you're almost obligated to open a company to be able to legally pay them and supply necessary tax documents.

 

[Huge Fuckin Nerd]

I googled Madalvius Figtree and a transformer blew up outside my house. I’m not joking.

 

[batterybee]

I googled Madalvius Figtree and a transformer blew up outside my house. I’m not joking.

Thats what you get going after someone who has spent 20 years hacking government power plants for Blizzard.

 

[Huge Fuckin Nerd]

Thats what you get going after someone who has spent 20 years hacking government power plants for Blizzard.

I’m pissed because I’m 99% sure I lose my own hardcore wow character because of it. They’re still pretty fresh, but it is like 3-4 days of work gone.

 

[All Smiles]

Thats what you get going after someone who has spent 20 years hacking government power plants for Blizzard.

That's only the warning shot, too. Try it again and you'll wake up with three ferrets in your ass.

 

[Active User]

So I just googled "Maldavius Figtree" on a whim after seeing this thread in recent activity and stumbled upon this large reddit post (archive) which dug up his old blog and how the comments are filled with him apparently being a sex pest, harasser, and just generally an all around dick. As the top comment says, you can take the employee out of Blizzard but you can't take the Blizzard out of the employee.

It looks like Pirate Software used to be a sex pest and engaged in real life harassment​

Allegations

With all the recent drama which surrounded Jason "Thor" Hall aka Pirate Software I remembered and dug up this old article I had found from 2008 which showed them to a sketchy person. I had forgotten just awful it was.

This is the article](http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/01/a-dark-night-fo.html#comments). It is about Thor firing an employee from their company which was selling Second Life Avatars. But the article itself isn't that interesting as the comments under it. There 55 comments almost all of negative and some painting him to be a monster. Because of the way that information gets lost on the internet this comment section serves a snapshot of the community back in 2008 and what everybody thought of them (spoilers everybody hated them). And unfortunately I wasn't able to find much more information that those comments. I hope that if someone who used to be part of the SL community at the time sees this and sheds more light.

The information seems consistent between the different commenters. Some of the behavior presented (being smug, incompetent and abusive leader) seems consistent with their more recent behavior in other games (like EVE Online - seriously check out what some of the threads on the EVE subreddit have to say about Maldavius). And some of the commenters seem to be well known members of the community, not just anoms.

For some context. Jason used to have a character called Maldavius Figtree. They use Maldavius as a character name to this day. They used to be a part of Brautigan & Tuck Holdings, a virtual estate company that espoused hardcore libertarian values and Justice league unlimited which for what I gather was like a troll group. They are famous for destroying the Woodbury University sim.

After leaving B&TH he created several of their sims. They also created DarkSphere Creation - a company that sells second life avatars and other assets.

Should note that apparently some people liked to have ingame sex and this is something Maldavius engaged with (this will be relevant soon).

Some general themes you can find in those comments: Them, being a control freak, yelling, not accepting disagreements and generally being an abusive leader, being exploitative while at the same time not very competent. People who've tried doing business with Maldavius found him lacking. They are describes as unstable even turning violent. Backstabbing people. Speaking ill, spreading rumors and turning communities against people they didn't like.

And I've pulled quotes for the more shocking stuff.

Keep in mind, some of the comments might be homophobic or insensitive to furies (tried to keep that out of the quotes). And it features a picture of Maldavious' fursona engaged in a sex act. http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/01/a-dark-night-fo.html#comments

They spied on players. Bugged objects to log chat logs and character location

Anonymous: he bugged any and every object he could find, or hid objects in the walls to log chats and log who is in a certain location, he does this with many of his creations, he’ll hide scripts in a .010x.010x.010 prim amongst normal prims. He also wrecked other builds he’s been involved with.

Mal bless America: I remember Maldy as guy who has claimed to crash the main grid multiple times, person who has scripted several interesting scripts alone or with his friends, like a script that could be hidden in hacked sexgen bed and if person clicks the blue agree button on the top, thinking it’s the animate message, it will drain his L$ balance, or multiple plans of griefer tools or scripts that are against tos or are using the pig holes in them (Like uuid ‘thief’ script)

They harassed people in real life:

Anonymous: He has backstabbed countless people, even harassing people in real life, and getting others to harass them outside of SL until they drop out of existence, one way or another. Has conducted DDoS attacks using http requests from within Second Life (and will more than likely attack this site now) Somehow, he’s managed to skirt past all the ToS violations he’s broken

Warren Flanagan: Maldavius was apparently quite close to his SL business partner in real life, at least before he banned her from his sims, destroyed her reputation, and concocted all manner of absolutely unrepeatable lies about her mental health and her status in her profession.

Prokofy Neva: Maldavius is a creep stalking griefer, no question

Anonymous: Tries to ruin people in SL and outside of SL, spies on EVERYONE for profit, even made weapons for griefers (namely to spy on them, but still made weapons that could crash sims) Has reportedly crashed a ton of Linden Sims out of anger. Has tried to get Lindens fired.

The reason they destroyed Woodbury Univerity was in retaliation after WU kicked them out because of their behavior

Anonymous: He was kicked off the Woodbury project due to his unstable and erratic behavior when dealing with other people and vowed “Woodbury will never return” and holed himself up in his two horribly designed sims.

And this is real would be psychotic:

Anonymous: He also went as far as enrolling in the real life Woodbury University in an attempt to gain control over the Woodbury Sim that was planned at the time after it got shut down initially. Yes, that’s right folks, he actually went as far as enrolling in a 22k a year school to get control over something in a fake world

Malvadavius had a special room for "intimacy"

lol: An interesting thing to note is -there- he conduts his sexual advances and the resulting furry humpin’. Does he go somewhere private, perhaps a convenient secret mainland plot? Nope. He textfucks right there in Machina, in a dark sphere (fitting, ain’t it?) right there above his main store. By “right there” I mean approximately 700 meters up, but you get the idea. He has a horrible looking wood-textured “apartment” up there, complete with a sex bed he insists is “only for cuddling,” though many can demonstrate otherwise. We’ve all got screenshots. Don’t get too close if you want to take a gander, though, he has a gigantic scanner in the middle of the sphere that teleports anyone home who gets too near. Luckily, draw distance can be set to more than 96m.
They may have dating one of the SL devs and then tried to get him fired after they broke up.

Lord Of Placenta: he kisses the asses of too many lindens, maybe yiffs them in that sphere of his, which is probably why he’s still allowed to wander around in sl.

Lord Of Placenta: For example, that time when Maldavius and Frontier Linden were “partners” (yiffing ingame,..), and when old figtress tried to get Frontier fired after the breakup.

Sexual harassment, blackmail and threat of retaliation against victims

lol: It seems the only thing Maldavius contributes to his own company is drama. Whether in the form of slave-driving, manipulation, or sex scandals ... Every chance he gets, he manipulates anyone he can (and he has plenty, he tries to surround himself with weak-minded, submissive, insecure individuals

lol: Much of the drama in his little world centers around his penis. Female employees in his company, as well as any female land-owner on his sims unlucky enough to attract his attention (which isn’t hard, he spends a lot of time spying on people) are invariably subjected to constant sexual harassment. If they refuse his advances, he threatens them. Sometimes he holds their employment over their heads. Sometimes he threatens to reclaim their land. Sometimes he just bans them from the sim. If he has any personal information on them at all, he uses that. However, because he seeks out the weak-willed, submissive, and desperate, many fall to his advances and do the textual nasty with him. He then holds this over their heads as more personal ammunition against them.

ZeeScarlet: When I asked him why so many people disliked him once… he said it was because women go CRAZY after being with him…and, to his credit..I suppose the frantic scrubbing afterward COULD have some sort of detrimental mental effect.
Malneedspixelsextolive: I turned him down for pixel sex and now whenever he sees me he cages/orbits/ and tells whatever griefer friends he’s with that I <3 the penis and I’m a slut. Girls that don’t type sexily to him are sluts. I really don’t want any drama with him- I’m sick of it, it’s why I ignore him whenever I run into him somewhere, or leave.

Malneedspixelsextolive: People are called crazy whenever he doesn’t get his way, he has major control/power issues and more people will get fucked over by him and then they will turn against him

Also this is a comment I found on another article. Honestly seems too over the top and I don't know if I could believe it.
http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/09/will-ll-squeeze.html

oh lol: Maldavius Figtree ... has molested a female priest in RL, then engineered a mass nationwide 911 calling spam campaign to try to get her committed to an insane asylum so this woman wouldn’t tell his RL girlfriend about their RL affair, whose self-filming of his masturbation is now available on the intertubes.

I don't post this here just for the drama. Thor has a young/adolescent audience and oftern positions themselves in a mentor role. They are currently leading the biggest guild in Ashes of Creation, they organize an yearly Game Jam. We laugh at his dumb lies but imagine being realiable on this unstable person to you boss and mentor. Like imagine being being a teenager who has never played an MMO before and entering your favourite YT's AoC guild (because that's what most of that guild's members are) only for them to berate you and blame you for their own fucks up.

Like remember that clip with them pulling the occular. Imagine how this person's supposed to teach you how to play but they just threaten to kick you of the guild at every percieved mistake.

I really hope someone who dealed with them in Second Life would have more memories to share.

And atiny amendum to this post. I've seen several people reference this article recently trying to dunk on Jason in videos and twitter threads. Some even showed some of the comments, but none showed the worst stuff, which was the sexual harassment. Like are people so lazy with their research, they can't be bothered to read 55 comments?

I don't know how much of this is real, and it's likely difficult to verify anything directly, but it may be useful if anyone's curious and wants to dig deeper or if they decide to trust these comments. This website has just sorta been around for years and people haven't found it until recently, so it would be pretty wild if the straw that broke the camel's back and released a bunch of dirt on him was the fact that he was bad at video games and was annoying about it.

Links within the post:
http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/09/will-ll-squeeze.html (archive)
(NSFW, furry blowjob image) http://alphavilleherald.com/2008/01/a-dark-night-fo.html#comments (archive, archive of further comments)

 

[reactionary]

Hasn't that already been extensively documented in the OP? Or is that some other SL drama?

 

[Active User]

Hasn't that already been extensively documented in the OP? Or is that some other SL drama?

Seems the blowjob one was linked in the OP, but the other one was not. Something of a time capsule for sentiment around him back then, I suppose.

 

[Lords Greatsword]

I googled Madalvius Figtree and a transformer blew up outside my house. I’m not joking.

The Gnomes send their regards.

 

[Aidan]

It's still funny seeing people try to defend him so there's that. Tons of braindead takes, one redditor has seemingly made it his mission to defend Mald constantly saying "wheres the proofs?" for over a week now across multiple subreddits. Probably an autistic kid or at least I'd hope so.

Mald will inevitably fuck up again because he's a fuck up and now people are waiting for it for the lulz. If he's not talking down to someone then he's not talking to them.

 

[kiwirevolving]

I'm happy that Jason is getting more and more attention regarding what a shitty person he is

his ego will never allow him to admit that he did what he did or that he's sorry. he'll come up with all sorts of stupid explanations to try prove that he is in the right

suffice to say, we'll be eating good for a while considering jason doesn't know to shut the fuck up because of his ego and because of how thin skinned he is by talking about every petty thing someone accuses him of

 

[Pippa's Greasy KB]

It's at least the 2nd day he's playing balatro now. Before he was playing PoE2. What happened? Did he get tired of people scrutinizing his gameplay even in solo runs that he has resorted to playing a game he can blame his luck on? (I played balatro for 3 hours. wasn't for me) Gonna test the waters and compete with bossman jack?

 

[LGTV]

Going off the comments I've been seeing in my chat logging software I take it balatro has something to do with cards.

Speaking of the chat archive, should I keep doing it? Or does it derail the thread?

 

[Mr.Bucket]

I’m pissed because I’m 99% sure I lose my own hardcore wow character because of it. They’re still pretty fresh, but it is like 3-4 days of work gone.

Invest in a quality UPS. It'll give you enough time to shut things down safely.

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

It's at least the 2nd day he's playing balatro now. Before he was playing PoE2. What happened? Did he get tired of people scrutinizing his gameplay even in solo runs that he has resorted to playing a game he can blame his luck on?

You can't even really blame luck in Balatro IMO, sure you can get lucky insane runs but like any good roguelike, a decent player will find a way to win most seeds. Same deal as Slay the Spire, where you juxtapose players complaining that RNG is bending them over while top players set records of 20+ wins in a row on the highest difficulty.

Going off the comments I've been seeing in my chat logging software I take it balatro has something to do with cards.

You have to use the cards in your hand to play different poker hands that have values associated with them, and you have "joker" cards which give you passive buffs, and the cards can also be modified to do special things when played. It's pretty fun.

Speaking of the chat archive, should I keep doing it? Or do you all view it as nothing?

I think it's worth cataloguing all the things said, maybe you could filter it just by the ones that got deleted, because those are going to be the most interesting ones.

 

[Xanax and Wine]

You can't even really blame luck in Balatro IMO, sure you can get lucky insane runs but like any good roguelike, a decent player will find a way to win most seeds. Same deal as Slay the Spire, where you juxtapose players complaining that RNG is bending them over while top players set records of 20+ wins in a row on the highest difficulty.

But his audience probably doesn't know that so he's got free rein to blame everyone and everything else once again. Even if you make a terrible play you can just say "you see, I was hoping to draw X card to do this gigabrain play but it wouldn't come so my high risk move just didn't pay off, but I had a genius plan!"
Sounds like something he'd do

 

[HansKlokBier]

He's playing Balatro right now and the views are low, 8.600.

Love that for him, fading to irralavancy...

Edit. There is some weird shit going on with his views, shooting up to 12k and back down to 8k, really sus...

 

[LGTV]

You have to use the cards in your hand to play different poker hands that have values associated with them, and you have "joker" cards which give you passive buffs, and the cards can also be modified to do special things when played. It's pretty fun.

I think it's worth cataloguing all the things said, maybe you could filter it just by the ones that got deleted, because those are going to be the most interesting ones.

I've tried on IDK how many occasions to learn poker but I just don't understand the game, I kind of understand blackjack where the objective is to get the closest to 21 without going over, but I just don't understand it. Roulette was more my thing. My Grandfather (May he rest in peace) was a huge poker and blackjack guy, I remember going over to his house and he would watch poker and blackjack tournaments from time to time.

To my knowledge the software I use (Chatty) doesn't allow only logging deleted chats. You can only change if deleted messages (IE 1234) show up as "<deleted message>" or "1234" I'll experiment with it once his stream is over, and once I saved a full log. That way if I do mess with the settings and fuck something up I still have the full log.

IMO having the full log helps with context.

 

[Black Willow Lurker]

To my knowledge the software I use (Chatty) doesn't allow only logging deleted chats. You can only change if deleted messages (IE 1234) show up as "<deleted message>" or "1234" I'll experiment with it once his stream is over, and once I saved a full log. That way if I do mess with the settings and fuck something up I still have the full log.

If you're going to archive the logs anyway, I'd say keep the full logs. The "deleted message" tag would also be useful. With full logs we could gather some interesting stats. Deleted messages count would be generally interesting (I'm guessing it's going to be much higher than the "average" streamer), but something like a plot of number of (deleted) messages/time could be used to maybe find "interesting" portions of the streams.

 

[Crescent Fresh]

I've tried on IDK how many occasions to learn poker but I just don't understand the game, I kind of understand blackjack where the objective is to get the closest to 21 without going over, but I just don't understand it. Roulette was more my thing. My Grandfather (May he rest in peace) was a huge poker and blackjack guy, I remember going over to his house and he would watch poker and blackjack tournaments from time to time.

To my knowledge the software I use (Chatty) doesn't allow only logging deleted chats. You can only change if deleted messages (IE 1234) show up as "<deleted message>" or "1234" I'll experiment with it once his stream is over, and once I saved a full log. That way if I do mess with the settings and fuck something up I still have the full log.

IMO having the full log helps with context.

Balatro is not Poker, though. It’s an entirely different kind of game which just uses the existing “hands” (straight, flush, pair, etc) to play a very different game entirely. It’s very much worth looking into, even if you don’t understand Poker. Poker skill is irrelevant.